Mentorship

The SPARK Research Mentorship Program's distinctive mentor-based model nurtures enthusiasm for research among talented high schoolers. Physician-scientists who act as mentors and role models are dedicated to ensuring SPARK student scholars have hands-on experience in their research labs investigating a range of topics. Focus areas include novel therapeutic targets, cancer metastasis, nanomedicine, neuroscience, immunology and much more.

SPARK scholars receive professional mentoring to carry out their research projects within the Discovery and Translation Labs at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus.

Students are matched with researchers and are provided valuable mentoring in the lab, conducting experiments and working with the same equipment our scientists use.

In the Discovery and Translation Labs, scholars work alongside teams of scientists and physicians conducting research with the goal of improving patient care. Their focus is finding new and better ways to predict, prevent, diagnose, and optimally treat complex neurological diseases and cancer.

Guided by unmet patient needs, researchers work collaboratively in laboratories, on clinical trials and on epidemiologic studies to turn promising discoveries into effective treatments.

• Read more about the Discovery and Translation Labs.
• See a list of researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida.